Elevation of Stein, Limburg, Netherlands

Stein, Limburg, Netherlands is 55 m (180 ft) above sea level.

Stein's height from sea level is 55 metres, or 180 feet. GeoNames reads 61 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 61 m.

Ground within 4 km

30 m – 107 m

Mean 53 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 77 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 47

among the towns of Limburg, and 18th of 481 in Netherlands.

Nearest town

4 km to the E, at 67 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through Stein

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Stein; the vertical scale is the same on both.

11820WE23.4 km
West to east: from 71 m at 12 km west to 97 m at 12 km east.
11820NS23.4 km
North to south: from 32 m at 12 km north to 83 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Stein, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 49 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Stein

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Sittard-Geleen 4 kmE 67 m (220 ft) +12 m
Beek 4.7 kmSE 83 m (272 ft) +28 m
Dilsen-Stokkem (Belgium) 7.6 kmNW 35 m (115 ft) −20 m
Schinnen 8.5 kmE 82 m (269 ft) +27 m
Meerssen 9.5 kmS 63 m (207 ft) +8 m

Where Stein is

Latitude 50.969851, longitude 5.765861. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Stein elevation: 55 m (180 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Stein's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 61 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.